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From the following extract from the ' Dorset Chronicle' it would 

 appear the sting of the adder occasionally proves mortal : — " On Monday 

 se'nnight, ahorse, the property of Mr. Andrews, of the Britannia Inn, 

 Castle Carey, whilst grazing in a field about a mile from the town, was 

 stung by an adder ; and so virulent was the poison, that the animal died 

 in the course of an hour, in the most dreadful agony," Mr. Blaine 

 informs us that "the accident is not often attended with fatal con- 

 sequences ; and that country persons merely rub the part with an onion, 

 and force another down the throat." " In more serious cases," continues 

 Mr. Blaine, " the following will give relief: — spirits of hartshorn or 

 turpentine, one ounce, mixed with a point of olive oil. To a horse the 

 whole of this mixture may be given, and some of the same kind rubbed 

 into the bitten part." 



The annexed paragraph I have since extracted from the 

 ' Reading Mercury.^ 



" Two valuable horses were last week stung to death by bees : one 

 dying in great agony within the short space of ten minutes after it had 

 been stung ; the other surviving two days. The animals were turned into 

 a yard at Chittern, Wilts, where there was a stock of bees, which they 

 soon upset ; the bees then fastened upon the horses, and the result was as 

 stated" (August, 1834.) 



One field-day, our regiment had in Windsor Park two of 

 the troop horses stung, in the act of trampling over a wasps' 

 nest. One was rendered for a few minutes very lame from 

 the stings, which had produced two small puffy lumps 

 upon the hind fetlock : the other horse had a similar swell- 

 ing upon his stifle. 



